Do Americans not understand the concept of a political alliance? Smaller political parties like the PSL, Green and Cornell West get a bargaining chip, and can force “the lesser of two evil” to agree to their terms in order to form a stable government. That is how it works for the rest of the world.
There’s no “form a stable government” step in the US. A party with 30% of the vote can take the whole thing. The US government is already stable, it is owned by the capitalists and staffed by bureaucrats and Dem/GOP politicians. They compete to haggle over which ruling class strategy for profit maximization is best.
You are correct that there is a bargaining chip aspect, though. But that is a level of electoral calculus far beyond people that think political power is a trolley problem based on a meme.
Do Americans not understand the concept of a political alliance? Smaller political parties like the PSL, Green and Cornell West get a bargaining chip, and can force “the lesser of two evil” to agree to their terms in order to form a stable government. That is how it works for the rest of the world.
There’s no “form a stable government” step in the US. A party with 30% of the vote can take the whole thing. The US government is already stable, it is owned by the capitalists and staffed by bureaucrats and Dem/GOP politicians. They compete to haggle over which ruling class strategy for profit maximization is best.
You are correct that there is a bargaining chip aspect, though. But that is a level of electoral calculus far beyond people that think political power is a trolley problem based on a meme.